Elisabetta Canalis dismissed from 'Dancing With the Stars'

Have you recovered from all the buzz surrounding Nancy Grace’s “Dancing With the Stars” wardrobe malfunction Monday night? Good. If you got your hopes up for any sort of controversy, you won’t hear anything about it during the episode. Plus, Grace still insists that no malfunction occurred.


After a performance by the “DWTS” male pros, in which they surround a delighted Carrie Ann Inaba, Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet get things started. We’ve got performances by the Script AND Demi Lovato, so there’s no time to waste.


Flashback time: The judges bash David Arquette’s jive, but we get another glimpse of this week’s Adorable Coco Moment as David’s daughter, Coco, sits with David’s ex, Courteney Cox. Coco and Courteney assure David he did a great job. Meanwhile, Bruno tells Carson Kressley that his dance was terrible, or more accurately, like he was dancing on banana peels. Who’s safe, thanks to the judge scores and America’s votes?


Carson and Anna! David and Kym are in jeopardy. But what would we do without the Adorable Coco Moment of the week?


Ricki Lake, dressed again in her pink fringe, shakes it like a Polaroid picture to OutKast’s “Hey Ya!” for a repeat performance of her jive with her partner, Derek, given that they were the high scorers of the night.


Now another way created to fill an hour of a results show that should really take 10 minutes — a tour of the show’s “training crib,” where all the dancers go to rehearse. Ricki Lake kicks off the tour with a look at the most coveted rehearsal space in the house, which is also very historical. It’s the place where Kate Gosselin nearly drove Tony Dovolani to quit by just being Kate Gosselin, and it’s where Hines Ward dropped his partner, Kym Johnson, on her head. Ah, memories.


Carson Kressley shows us a giant warehouse that contains all the past “DWTS” costumes. He finds former contestant Bristol Palin’s gorilla costume and puts on the mask. “Smells like a tea party, still,” he remarks.


After a performance from rock band The Script, we’re back to the couples. The judges loved Kristin Cavallari’s quickstep, and the judges were scandalized that J.R. Martinez performed a lift during a jive. Ricki Lake gets rave reviews for the best jive of the night.


Ricki and Derek are safe! Kristin and Mark are safe! J.R. and Karina are safe! How anti-climactic.


More stalling as all the contestants talk about how scary it is to be eliminated, followed by another professional dancer routine that involves lots of giant feathers and spinning. It’s riveting for all the wrong reasons.


She didn’t account for the public however, whose scores are combined with those of the judges to decide who is eliminated.


Canalis even admitted she didn’t vote for herself, though that wasn’t due to reckless confidence, said the model:


“You want to know the truth? I was in a restaurant and my phone didn’t have battery, so I couldn’t call. So my friends were calling, but it was not enough. Don’t kill me, okay? It’s my fault because I didn’t vote the 12 times I had to.”
The Italian model and former girlfriend of George Clooney also assured Kimmel she got on well with Chmerkovskiy, despite the perception their relationship was frosty. For his part, Chmerkovskiy blames some selective DWTS editing:


“We kept it real. We kept it real from the beginning. I think it’s part of the process – the argument, the laughter – there was a lot of laughter that they didn’t show, but anybody who’s smiling on camera and says everything’s peachy is just lying.”


Judges' scores are combined with viewer votes to determine which celebrity is ousted each week. Basketball star Ron Artest, now known as Metta World Peace, was bounced from the ballroom last week.


Perhaps the most relieved to be returning was Chaz Bono, who came into Tuesday's episode with the lowest score. He said Tuesday that he was "completely nervous" about the results and hoped he had performed well enough to continue in the competition.


"I did the best I could," he said.


He collected 17 points Monday for a quickstep routine that judges said was just too slow.


"The bottom line is it's a quickstep and I've moved faster through the car wash," Goodman said.


Also back in the ballroom next week will be reality stars Rob Kardashian and Kristin Cavallari; TV personalities Ricki Lake, Carson Kressley and Nancy Grace; actors David Arquette and J.R. Martinez; singer Chynna Phillips and soccer star Hope Solo.


Tuesday's episode also included musical performances by Demi Lovato and rock band The Script.